#Michio Akiyama

[shihlun]

Kôji Wakamatsu

- Sex Jack

1970

[roseillith]

ゆけゆけ二度目の処女 // GO, GO SECOND TIME VIRGIN (1969) dir. KOJI WAKAMATSU

[cinematicmasterpiece]

go, go second time virgin (1969)

[seaweed-s0up]

requests from twitter

[zhenniguan]

DIGITOBER 2024

> Day 18, Akiyama

> Day 19, Haruka

> Day 25, Ono Michio

> Day 27, Daigo

[saiyef]

Spoilers for the Yakuza Series

So, the Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Bucket List Trailer dropped some really juicy reveals which longtime Yakuza fans will happily eat up, that being RETURNING CHARACTERS FROM PREVIOUS GAMES! Which is a big deal for the longtime Yakuza fans because, while Yakuza does bring back characters semi-consistently, the series also has a tendency to completely shelve and forget characters from game to game without even a mention (notable examples being the playable characters Tanimura from 4 and Shinada from 5 and longtime recurring character the Florist of Sai who after Yakuza 5 just disappears without any explanation). It’s also a big reason why fans disliked Yakuza 6, with it being touted and marketed as the ‘End of Kiryu’s Story’, it featured very little of Kiryu’s friends he met along his long journey and instead took place in a new city Onomichi and focused more on characters introduced in 6.

We got Kiryu returning to the classic Yakuza series location, the graves of Nishiki, Yumi and Kazama, where he of course meets Date.

Then we have Kiryu walk into Survive Bar and gets a blast from the past through finally meeting the bar’s bartender, Kashiwagi (he actually did go to Survive during Like a Dragon Gaiden but it was right when Kashiwagi was out).

Next, fresh off his surprise reappearance at the end of Like a Dragon Gaiden, Taichi surrounded by gaggle of hostesses. Gaiden reveals Taichi got a job as a firefighter, but it looks like he acquired some major money somehow. Maybe he achieved his childhood dream of becoming a pro-wrestler between 2019 and 2023/2024?

Next, we get Yuya, who RGG Studio has given an actual human-looking face to; after he had previously kept his weirdly-shaped uncanny PS2 modelled head that had his cheeks concaved in.

Then, of course, we have the man, the myth, the legend, Shun Akiyama of Sky Finance (don’t know about you guys, but I personally believe Nick Ogata in 7, who is a character I do like, was created as a fill-in character for Akiyama and Akiyama was originally written to do all the things Nick did in 7, being this enigmatic financier and sheltering Daigo, Majima and Saejima).

And, yet another major surprise, Kaoru Sayama who was major character in Yakuza 2 and famously unceremoniously leaving the series to move to America finally returns to the series after a 14/15 year absence; leaving fans especially flabbergasted considering she became Kiryu’s love interest in 2 and she never even gets talked about (in fact, I’m fairly sure the RGG team tried to pretend that their romance never happened as the recaps of Yakuza 2 put in the sequels to fill in first-time players never mention their romance and the Yakuza 3 character sheet on the start menu which denotes characters’ relationships with each other says “Just friends” with Kiryu and Kaoru). But, based on a teaser where Kiryu tells Ichiban he did in fact propose to someone before, it seems it might have been Kaoru. Plus, it seems that Kaoru is still single (I was thinking she might have been married with kids) and the dub trailer made Kaoru sound bitter about staying loyal to Kiryu.

An Ono Michio keychain. Wondering whose bag it’s on. I think maybe Haruka, Haruto or Hiromi (Kiyomi and Someya’s daughter from 6). Perhaps a hint that we might return to Onomichi and see the old Hirose Clan.

We even get a return of Yuki and Koyuki, who have seemingly kept Club Four Shine going, plus it looks like Saeko and Seong-hui are joining in. Sadly, the story hostesses from 0’s Cabaret Club Czar and Kiwami 2’s Cabaret Club Grand Prix don’t seem to be returning. Yeah, I think that characters that were played by AV actresses (i.e. almost all of the hostesses in the Yakuza series) will not come back; which I’m really disappointed by as I really liked each of the 0 hostess’ substorys. Also, that sadly means that Eri from 7 is probably not coming back as she was also played by an AV actress.

Kiryu also reunites with another old friend from all the way back since Yakuza 1, his old trainer Komaki. Infinite Wealth will stick to the RPG-style battles and job systems, and even before then the games have more-or-less moved past Komaki and other trainer characters teaching you new moves in favour of Kiryu just levelling up a skill tree on the menu, but Kiryu meeting his old master who he owes much of his acquired strength to is still great to see.

And, of course, 1 out of 4 of Kiryu oldest still living friends since 0 (the others being Daigo, Kashiwagi and Majima), Pocket Circuit Fighter; still having that photo of the two of them together that he pulls when singing Baka Mitai in Kiwami 1.

We also hear Haruka in the trailer, who I’m fairly sure was also replaced from her original English voice actor from Yakuza 1 Debi Derryberry, the voice of Jimmy Neutron. I don’t want to get into the whole voice acting controversy but, considering that Bill Farmer reprised his role of Date from Yakuza 1, I feel a little sad that all the characters who first appeared from Yakuza 1 have gotten replaced (Kiryu: Darryl Kurlyo -> Yong Yea, Majima: Mark Hamill -> Matthew Mercer, Kashiwagi: John DiMaggio -> David Hayter and Gary Buster Holmes: Gary Anthony Williams -> Isaac C. Singleton Jr.)

[its-coda]

Ordered 4 yakuza plushies

[incorrect-idolmastersidem-quotes]

[Detention] Michio: Well, your objections have been duly noted and summarily overruled. Hayato: Yes, sir! Michio: How come when you say 'yes, sir' it kinda sounds like 'fuck you'? Hayato: Practice!

[dilfkuza]

they showed up so im normal again teehee <3

i think the postal service has somethin against me receiving plushies 🧍

[imasallstars]

The cover art for THE IDOLM@STER SideM GROWING SIGN@L SOLO COLLECTION 03 album has been released.

This album will feature solo versions of the next batch of GROWING SIGN@L songs and only available in purchase in the THE IDOLM@STER SideM 8th STAGE ～ALL H@NDS TOGETHER～ on the 28th and 29th of October 2023

Tracklist:

Tr.01　Multiple Entertainment Show! ~Michio Hazama Solo Ver.~ Tr.02　Multiple Entertainment Show! ~Rui Maita Solo Ver.~ Tr.03　Multiple Entertainment Show! ~Jiro Yamashita Solo Ver.~ Tr.04　Change to Chance ~Teru Tendo Solo Ver.~ Tr.05　Change to Chance ~Kaoru Sakuraba Solo Ver.~ Tr.06　Change to Chance ~Tsubasa Kashiwagi Solo Ver.~ Tr.07　VIVA!! Family Rhytmn ~Yusuke Aoi Solo Ver.~ Tr.08　VIVA!! Family Rhytmn ~Kyosuke Aoi Solo Ver.~ Tr.09　Platinum MASK ~Kyoji Takajo Solo Ver.~ Tr.10　Platinum MASK ~Pierre Solo Ver.~ Tr.11　Platinum MASK ~Minori Watanabe Solo Ver.~ Tr.12　JOYFUL HEART MAKER ~Hayato Akiyama Solo Ver.~ Tr.13　JOYFUL HEART MAKER ~Jun Fuyumi Solo Ver.~ Tr.14　JOYFUL HEART MAKER ~Natsuki Sakaki Solo Ver.~ Tr.15　JOYFUL HEART MAKER ~Haruna Wakazato Solo Ver.~ Tr.16　JOYFUL HEART MAKER ~Shiki Iseya Solo Ver.~

[best-thriller-animanga-tourney]

Propaganda/summaries:

MW: Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations.

During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island’s inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witness—one whose sense of right and wrong, however, the potent nerve agent managed to obliterate.

Now, fifteen years later, Yuki is a social climber of Balzacian proportions, infiltrating the worlds of finance and politics by day while brutally murdering children and women by night—perversely using his Kabuki-honed skills as a female impersonator to pass himself off as the women he’s killed. His drive, however, will not be satiated with a promotion here and a rape there. Michio Yuki has a far more ominous objective: obtaining MW, the ultimate weapon that spared his life but robbed him of all conscience.

There are only two men with any hope of stopping him: one, a brilliant public prosecutor who struggles to build a case against the psychopath; the other, a tormented Catholic priest, Iwao Garai, who shares Yuki’s past—and frequently his bed.

Liar Game; Wishing she would live up to the ideal, Kanzaki Nao's father named her thusly for “honesty”. Nao has more than lived up to her father's wishes--even exceeding them and earning the label of "a foolishly honest girl". This makes Nao the least qualified candidate for the high stakes 'Liar Game', where winning requires deceiving the opponent out of their money and losing means receiving massive debt. However, that doesn't stop a box containing a hundred million yen in cash and a card informing her of her participation in the game from arriving at her doorstep, nor does it stop her from being promptly tricked out of the entire sum of money. Upon hearing that a genius swindler, responsible for the bankruptcy of a major corporation, is being released from jail, Nao goes to the swindler, Shinichi Akiyama, to enlist his help. With that, the two are drawn into the dark, greed-filled, and deceptive world of the Liar Game.

[rggdriptournament]

HEAT #1

#001: tsuyoshi nagumo vs yuta usami

#002: mikiko sadamoto vs kaoru sayama

#003: takayuki yagami vs masayoshi tanimura

#004: nick ogata vs christina

#005: shintaro kazama vs osamu kashiwagi

#006: keiji shibusawa vs koichi adachi

#007: saori shirosaki vs makoto makimura

#008: makoto date vs makoto tsukumo

#009: joon-gi han (y6) vs fumiya sugiura

#010: daisaku kuze vs hiroki awano

#011: shusuke kenmochi vs seong-hui

#012: daisaku minami vs rikiya shimabukuro

#013: saeko mukoda vs eri kamataki

#014: masaharu kaito vs yuya

#015: yasuko saejima vs jin kuwana

#016: kazuki vs tetsu tachibana

#017: tashiro vs daigo dojima (y2)

#018: naoki katsuya vs the lingerie thief

#019: satoshi shioya vs masaru watase

#020: dd vs mitsuru kuroiwa

#021: hana vs yuki

#022: producer kiryu vs american boy mitsuo

#023: yoshitaka mine vs akira mabuchi

#024: jun sadamoto vs yu nanba

#025: ai uehera vs hibiki otsuki

#026: chika arimura vs saki hatsumi

#027: the areshi brothers vs etsuko

#028: toru higashi vs shun akiyama

#029: shinada vs shrimpnada

#030: ryuji goda vs daimu akutsu

#031: sohei dojima vs masumi arakawa

#032: reina vs yayoi dojima

#033: ryo aoki vs hiroaki arai

#034: jo sawashiro vs jun oda

#035: futoshi shimano vs akira nishikiyama (y1)

#036: masaru sera vs tsukasa sagawa

#037: shigeki baba vs joon-gi han (y7)

#038: shinji tanaka vs takeshi kido

#039: nishida vs taiga saejima

#040: tesso vs akira nishikiyama (y0)

#041: goh hamazaki vs wen hai lee

#042: homare nishitani vs sosuke komaki

#043: miss tatsu vs mirei park

#044: bacchus vs sotaro komaki

#045: ono michio vs kamulop

#046: haruka sawamura vs kyoko amasawa

#047: goro majima vs the florist

#048: toranosuke sengoku vs kazuma kiryu

#049: yoko sawa vs yumi sawamura

#050: gary "buster" holmes vs andre richardson

#051: tianyou zhao vs takumi someya

#052: ichiban kasuga vs daigo dojima (post y2)

#053: masato arakawa vs masato aizawa

INTERIM #1

BONUS ROUND: dead souls costumes

BONUS ROUND: wildcard qualifier

[deadsouls-is-canon]

Memory loss? Hot older lady antagonist? Dress up/outfit mini game (Goromi confirmed)? Akiyama mention in the gameplay overview (see below)? Samoa Joe is there? Gary Buster Holmes spotted? Legendary Pirate Crew pack for PC preorder seems to include Kiryu, Daigo, Haruka, Ono Michio, Shimano (?), Sagawa (holy shit), Nishitani (holier shit) and Nugget (yas queen)? I am. Overwhelmed.

SLAY!

[dare-g]

Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)

[guysonfilms]

Michio Akiyama ( Yuke yuke nidome no shojo, 1969)

[watasemasaru]

How would your character react to one of the canonical protagonists stepping in to protect them? Wakaba wouldn’t mind as long as it wasn’t Kiryu or Akiyama

How does your character react when they see a fight starting in the street? Do they intervene? Cheer on the side? Join in? Eager to join in

Does your character fight? Under what circumstances? What sort of fighting style do they use? Wakaba does fight and looks forward to blowing off steam, she uses her father’s slugger style with her own incorporation of kicks

Could your character win a fight against any of the canonical protagonists? Which one(s)? Shinada but because he’d welcoming her kicking his ass

If your character got to be a protagonist or main character in a canonical game, what city would the story be set in? Yokohama & Osaka

If your character got to be a protagonist or main character in a canonical game, when would the story be set? Current times

What would your character be like if they appeared in Ishin (or Kenzan)? Noblewoman by day, ninja by night. The plot is she and Mine are in a lavender marriage, protecting each other’s secret of being in love with Eri & Daigo respectively.

What would your character be like if they appeared in Dead Souls, or a Dead Souls spinoff? Probably the same as her standard character but would switch out the baseball bat for axes and chainsaws

If your character’s only canonical role was to appear in one substory, what would that substory be? You have to help her meet her deadline, if you mess up the lines she makes you do chores

Previous question, but make the substory wackier !!! you have to do said chores in your underwear with the air conditioning on high

What’s your character’s favourite canonical restaurant? Which canonical restaurant do they eat at most often? Which canonical restaurant is their least favourite? Ringer Hut is her favorite, Kyushu No. 1 Star she eats at the most, and Fuji Soba is her least favorite

What is your character most likely to purchase at the pawn shop? what are they most likely to pawn off? Wakaba isn’t a pawn shop person

What sort of canon gear would your character equip? Baseball bat

What does/would your character like to do on a night out in Kamurocho? Batting cages and karaoke

Your character finds themselves snowed in at the mountain village from y5. What do they do? Help cook, you’re not going to get her out there hunting.

Would your character sing karaoke? If they had to sing one of the canonical karaoke songs, which would they choose? Rouge of Love & Butterfly (which she would duet with Ichiban)

Would your character be good at disco dancing? Oh yes. Wakaba is a very good dancer

Which canon character would/does your character get along best with? Why? Ayabe is childhood friends with Wakaba, they don’t see each other often until Judgment, but they are still as close as siblings. Ichiban is her best friend, they just have a synergy together.

Which canon character is/would be your character’s worst enemy? Kazuki Soma for Plot reasons, but she also has her one sided grudge with Kiryu.

What random bit-character would your character be buds with? Tashiro & Cane Man; they’re good boys!

Your character sees Majima being mean to Nishida. What would they do? “Dad, be nice.”

What’s the most important canonical event your character witnesses/is involved with? She was witness to Mitsuru’s accident, and was involved with Kitakata, but the event traumatized her causing dissociative amnesia.

What sort of weird stuff you pick up off the ground is your character most excited to find? Extract ingredience. She would want to watch Yagami go ass wild on them.

What would happen if your character met ono michio? She would want to draw him and take a picture with him, she loves mascot characters.

yakuza oc/underappreciated fave Ask Game

idk !! i recommend you ANSWER THEM ALL but if you want your followers to send asks instead, specify that in the tags I guess!

How would your character react to one of the canonical protagonists stepping in to protect them?

How does your character react when they see a fight starting in the street? Do they intervene? Cheer on the side? Join in?

Does your character fight? Under what circumstances? What sort of fighting style do they use?

Could your character win a fight against any of the canonical protagonists? Which one(s)?

If your character got to be a protagonist or main character in a canonical game, what city would the story be set in?

If your character got to be a protagonist or main character in a canonical game, when would the story be set?

What would your character be like if they appeared in Ishin (or Kenzan)?

What would your character be like if they appeared in Dead Souls, or a Dead Souls spinoff?

If your character’s only canonical role was to appear in one substory, what would that substory be?

Previous question, but make the substory wackier !!!

What’s your character’s favourite canonical restaurant? Which canonical restaurant do they eat at most often? Which canonical restaurant is their least favourite?

What is your character most likely to purchase at the pawn shop? what are they most likely to pawn off?

What sort of canon gear would your character equip?

What does/would your character like to do on a night out in Kamurocho?

Your character finds themselves snowed in at the mountain village from y5. What do they do?

Would your character sing karaoke? If they had to sing one of the canonical karaoke songs, which would they choose?

Would your character be good at disco dancing?

Which canon character would/does your character get along best with? Why?

Which canon character is/would be your character’s worst enemy?

What random bit-character would your character be buds with?

Your character sees Majima being mean to Nishida. What would they do?

What’s the most important canonical event your character witnesses/is involved with?

What sort of weird stuff you pick up off the ground is your character most excited to find?

What would happen if your character met ono michio?

add your own questions if you think of any please !